All
comics sold by
Diamond (in dollars)up 24.37%vs. same
month previous yeardown 0.23%year to date

The Top 300 Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels had sales
worth$5.78 million (doqn 19%
vs.
same month
previous year)(down
28%
vs. same month
5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 TPBs)(up 32% vs. same
month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 TPBs)

Category to date for year$56.84 million
(down 9% vs. previous year)

All
trade paperbacks and graphic novels sold by
Diamond (in dollars)down 12.9%vs. same
month previous yeardown 5.39%year to date

Combined Top 300 Comic Book and Top 300 Trade Paperback
sales were worth$39.57 million (up 11%
vs.
same month
previous year)(up
20% vs. same month
5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 TPBs)(up 35% vs. same
month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 TPBs)

Category to date for year$337.85 million
(down 11% vs. previous year)

All
comics, trade paperbacks and graphic novels sold by
Diamond (in dollars)up 11.93%vs. same
month previous yeardown 1.93%year to date

Note: This category diverges slightly from Diamond's
reported measures for all comics and TPBs. Slight differences are
introduced through the accuracy of the comparison year's calculation,
the presence of magazines, and other factors. Average cost of
comics in the
Top
300:$3.41

DC's
relaunch
again boosted comics orders, with its reorders helping it place more
titles in the Top 300 than any publisher to date in the Diamond
Exclusive Era. It's also the month with the highest sales yet for 300th
place -- over 5,000 copies -- and the fewest number of publishers to
date with titles in the Top 300 -- only 13.

Diamond reported sales for several
titles below
300th place. We can infer that titles from 301st to 425th place sold a
total of 400,000 copies worth nearly $1.5 million. This adds between
5-6% to what the Top 300 sold.

Trade paperback sales suffered somewhat
less in comparison
with 2010 than they did in September.

Note that the books marked with
asterisks were returnable,
and their rankings here are reduced from their actual positions by
Diamond by at least 10%. The number of books shipped to retailers is
higher.

THE FINE PRINT

The monthly sales estimates at right are
for comics shipped byDiamond
Comic Distributors,
the largest comic-book distributor in North America.

Diamond publishes "indexed" sales figures, in
which it keys orders for all comics it lists sales for to a single
comic book (usually Batman),
with one “order index point” being equal to 1% of that title’s orders.
We use the actual Diamond final orders from titles accounting for more
than 25% of Diamond’s Top 300 to approximate what an order index point
equals each month. The result is applied to the Diamond charts to
produce the estimates seen at right.